Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

If you are a young writer today, it's very hard.

Doris Lessing

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.

Doris Lessing

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

Daphne du Maurier

The purpose of a writer is to show the beauty and tragedy of life in the reader's own mirror.

Debasish Mridha

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

Jackie Collins

The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader.

Jenim Dibie

Stay humble as a writer: write on toilet paper.

Jonas Eriksson

The writer's room is a really interesting place to be.

Jason Gann

I'm the biggest Chekov fan - there's something that he does that not many other writers do.

Jeremy Irvine

Writers are two-home men - they want a place outside and a place within.

John le Carre

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.

Kathleen Turner

Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it.

Buddy Rice

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

Janis Ian

I have immense admiration for the writer/directors and director/actors who just seamlessly do both jobs at the same time.

Jim Piddock

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.

Sarah Silverman

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth.

Paul Theroux

Burke Dennings: Shall we summon the writer? He's in Paris. Chris MacNeil: Hiding? Burke Dennings: Fucking.

The Exorcist

Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.

John Connolly

Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden